MickM Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 I have a line with an arrow head on one end that I want to have transparency, but I get an unwanted darker area where the arrow head intersects the line. How can I fix that? Transparent.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 7 Staff Share Posted November 7 Hi @MickM, Select the arrow, perform an expand stroke operation then go to menu Layer > Geometry > Fill Holes. There may be more ways but this one sorts the issue. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 7 Staff Share Posted November 7 Not an add but an expand stroke operation. Fixed post above. Sorry. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 You can also group all the arrowed lines together and adjust the transparency of the group layer (Reset the current transparencies to 100% first) Old Bruce 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickM Posted November 7 Author Share Posted November 7 5 minutes ago, carl123 said: You can also group all the arrowed lines together and adjust the transparency of the group layer (Reset the current transparencies to 100% first) I just tried that but it didn't work :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickM Posted November 7 Author Share Posted November 7 36 minutes ago, MEB said: Hi @MickM, Select the arrow, perform an expand stroke operation then go to menu Layer > Geometry > Fill Holes. There may be more ways but this one sorts the issue. Thanks - that worked. It really smells like a bug that you have to jump through these hoops just to get something that intuitively should have done the right thing from the start... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 11 minutes ago, MickM said: I just tried that but it didn't work :-( In the sample document you uploaded you have lowered the colour opacity - that needs resetting to 100% Then group the layer and lower the layer transparency in the Layers panel Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickM Posted November 7 Author Share Posted November 7 Yes - I did that, but it didn't change the outcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 Upload the test document where you did that please, (with history if possible) Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickM Posted November 7 Author Share Posted November 7 In the attached document, I selected all 3 arrows, moved the transparency slider to 100%, then grouped them and then slid the transparency slider down to e.g. 40% and you can see the issue persists. Transparent2.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickM Posted November 7 Author Share Posted November 7 Whoops - I Misread your post. You were right. I adjusted the color transparency each time - not the *layer* transparency the second time. Sorry about that. Either way, I think this is a bug... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 Yes, it's a bug (undesirable effect) for arrowed lines that was first reported in June 2019 as far as I can see Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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